So #FantasyComicsMonth continues and this time around, I'm grabbing some books that I've been holding onto for at least a year in addition to some that I picked up at this year's Baltimore Comic-Con. They both have to do with the same character: Beowulf, the famous viking epic hero that you probably read about in …
Author: Tom Panarese
A #FantasyComicsMonth Grab Bag
I'm behind on quite a few things this month because of both work and some personal stuff. Those few things not only include work (in fact, I have a ton of essays to grade that are sitting to my left) but two podcast episodes and a bunch of blog posts for this site. What's been …
Uncollecting Update August 2023
As always, let’s start with the numbers … Physical Comics Read: 21 (83/261)Digital Comics Read: 0 (471/471)Trades/Graphic Novels Read: 4 (2/14)Books Read: 5 (108/125)Movies Watched: 1 (170/194)TV Series Watched: 0 (55/58)TV Seasons Watched: 0 (99/105)Podcast episodes remaining: 178 So I thought I would write about vacation and its effect on my hobbies. I ahve always …
Quasar
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/ff/Quasar-32.jpg/220px-Quasar-32.jpg So back around the time I first started this blog, I read through several random issues of Quasar and was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed them. I don't know why I had thought the character was lame or some sort of '90s mort, but that had been my impression going in and …
Uncollecting Update July 2023
As always, let’s start with the numbers … Physical Comics Read: 3 (98/261)Digital Comics Read: 0 (471/471)Trades/Graphic Novels Read: 4 (6/14)Books Read: 0 (110/125)Movies Watched: 7 (171/194)TV Series Watched: 1 (55/58)TV Seasons Watched: 1 (99/105)Podcast episodes remaining: 156 Okay, so this is my second attempt at this point because WordPress decided to freeze on me and ate my entire first draft. So …
Personal Archaeology 26: Scrapped Books
It started with a class project. The scrapbooks as they originally existed. There were five albums total, all with essays and/or captions. Truthfully, it started with a trip to Europe in the summer of 1994--between my junior and senior years of high school--because if not for that trip, I wouldn't have had any pictures to …
Surviving the Game
"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Carroll is one of those short stories that for at least a couple of generations in high school English. The premise, in case you're not familiar with it, is that a big game hunter named Rainsford falls off of a yacht and washes up on the private island of …
Lucky Them
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4a/Lucky_Them.jpg Ten years ago, Matthew Smith, one of the more influential voices of his generation, played his final show and disappeared. Nobody has been able to find him, although plenty of people on the Internet and other places swear they've seen him or heard him perform. Especially affected was his then-girlfriend, Ellie Klug . She's …
Uncollecting Update June 2023
As always, let’s start with the numbers … Physical Comics Read: 35 (101/261)Digital Comics Read: 0 (471/471)Trades/Graphic Novels Read: 3 (6/14)Books Read: 6 (110/125)Movies Watched: 7 (171/194)TV Series Watched: 0 (56/58)TV Seasons Watched: 0 (100/105)Podcast episodes remaining: 198 I will say that summer break plus a vacation means that you wind up reading a lot of comics and watching a good amount …
A Week Sick is a Week Uncollected
I tested positive for COVID on Sunday. It wasn't a surprise because everyone else in the house had it, and I was fortunate enough to just wind up with a really bad cold for most of the week. As I type this, I'm pretty much better but taking it easy for one more day just …
The Uncollecting 
